Individual skill
jfm-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question belongs at the Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) — i.e., whether it is genuinely about market microstructure / how markets trade rather than broad asset pricing or corporate finance. Scopes and reroutes; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Journal-of-Financial-Markets-Skills/skills/jfm-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Source commit 932eb23331721b16e967c59f093781be1928b498
What was checked
- Matches the observed repository HEAD
- Yes
- Scanner rules are current
- No
- Repository scan complete
- No
- Skill scan complete
- Yes
- Observed behavior
- Not checked yet
- Last checked
- Nov 9, 2026
These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.
Install this skill
Choose an agent in your Stack or copy a command below. Commands fetch the pinned commit and copy only this skill directory. Existing destinations are refused. Copying a command does not install anything.
An install command is unavailable: current rules, complete repository and skill scans, an eligible behavior level and a permitted license are required.
Repository context
- Repository stars (not skill ratings)
- 1,411
- Repository last updated
- Sep 27, 2026
- License
- MIT
Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.
- academic-writing Repository topic
- agent-skills Repository topic
- journal Repository topic
- academic-research Repository topic
- ai-agents Repository topic
- anthropic Repository topic
- awesome-list Repository topic
- claude Repository topic
- claude-code Repository topic
- economics Repository topic
- finance Derived category
Files and excerpt
File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.
Browse files
SKILL.mdcore · 8,792 bytes
Read excerpt
# Topic Selection (jfm-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- The paper studies trading, liquidity, prices, or order flow, and you must decide JFM vs. JF / JFE / RFS / JFQA
- A coauthor says "we have liquidity in the regressions" but the mechanism is really a corporate-finance or macro story
- The dataset is microstructure-grade (TAQ, LOBSTER, proprietary order book) but the *question* may be too broad to interest microstructure referees
- A referee elsewhere wrote "this is not really a markets paper"
- You need to decide if a structural/macro asset-pricing result has a sharp microstructure cut worth carving out for JFM
## The JFM fit test
JFM publishes research on **how securities are traded and priced** — the design and analysis of trading mechanisms, optimal order placement, the role of information in markets, liquidity, and price discovery. The clean test is the **mechanism question**: *Does the paper's central economic force live inside the trading process?* If you can restate the contribution without referencing spreads, depth, order flow, market design, information asymmetry among traders, or price formation, it is probably not a JFM paper.
